Critical Enquiry and Context Research Journal

1.  21^st February 2011. Angela Rogers.
Visual Enquiry. Synchronous Seminar.

The Research Journal – devise a format to revisit, to revise, collate, research analyse and reflect. To show the story of work progressing.

Hard/digital mixture. Copies – a loose page format to use in studio and rearrange – create themes. Collections.

Pull in images, writing, links – map out.

Remember to take time to write, reflect, put in context.

Devise a contents list for tutors to navigate site.

Construct new meanings, process, reworking, not just selecting but rethinking links.

Make habit of proper references in readings and other resources.

Web pages – hard copy and dates, as they change.

Collate new vocabulary – check definitions from different sources.

The change of process and thinking from paper to digital.

Sum up blog regularly – which areas are for public/private. Write for the audience (password protect).

Electronic sketchbook. Scan in handwritten notes and drawings. 

Christian Marclay. The clock.

Reflection

This seminar has been about making the transition from thinking and recording on paper to the digital blog. I have spent much time over the years in organising my archive of writings, ideas, images, works, etc - an ongoing process, but I have evolved a system of filing and referencing my own ideas. It has not before involved blogging, and although I have a website, I am unused to putting into any public domain my process of thinking and research - I usually show the finished product, or polished up background writing. The time to blog is now, and I am finding my resistance melting as I shape it how I want. I still find it quite an organisational effort, and am constantly thinking how to future- proof the journal, as the four years of MA will amass much material. I want to make it efficient and effective and easy to access and negotiate.

I already have some preferred transferable systems, or ways of thinking. I have hard-won organisation methods which work for me as a dyslexic multi-tasker. Above all, I am striving to create working methods which will be rigorous and still serve me during busy times. It involves thinking overall and at each constituent part and back-up procedure.

This reflection I am writing rather after the first seminar, as I am retrospectively adding formats and sections to the journal. This means adding to, revising, reformatting previous blogs, adding notes on lectures, and so on. I am getting comfortable with blogging, and find it valuable in many ways. So far I have been unable to upload video onto this blog.

On reflection, having kept this journal for a few weeks, I am rather a reflective artist and writer.

20th March 2011